Sunday, August 31, 2008

Every year, 30,000 sci-fi fans come to my town and parade down the main street dressed as their favorite fantasy world characters.

In years past, without realizing what weekend it was, I have found myself downtown after dark surrounded by characters from Star Wars, Star Trek, Japanese anime, various video games, comic books and vampire series.

This year, we purposefully met up with friends and took the train downtown to check out the role players on parade.

There were steam punks, super heroes, Hobbits, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Sesame Street characters, Hogwarts students, Klingons, and people of the Middle Earth.

**Clearly, I'm only teasing. I do not think attendees of the DNC are mutated beings from another planet, nor do I believe them to be developing prehensile tongues or hitting on FINE bloggers along a parade route. Though, that Lasso of Truth could come in handy in an election year. You know what I'm sayin?**